I have expanded my /partition from 23g to 55g – Oracle VM
1> vboxmanage list hdds
UUID: be13f7f4-8a3f-48da-b03d-6a3200a83a38
Parent UUID: base
State: locked write
Type: normal (base)
Location: /d02/oracle/EBS/exadata3/exadata1-disk001.vmdk
Storage format: VMDK
Capacity: 25600 MBytes
Encryption: disabled
2> clone it
vboxmanage clonemedium –format VDI /d02/oracle/EBS/exadata3/exadata1-disk001.vmdk /d02/oracle/EBS/exadata3/exadata1-disk001.vdi
0%…
3> resize it
vboxmanage modifymedium /d02/oracle/EBS/exadata3/exadata1-disk001.vdi –resize 60000
Step 4> Resize the file
use the file – gparted-live-1.1.0-8-i686
Step 5
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
26G 20G 4.8G 81% /
/dev/sda1 99M 38M 56M 41% /boot
tmpfs 2.9G 633M 2.3G 22% /dev/shm
[root@exdata2 ~]# pvdisplay
— Physical volume —
PV Name /dev/sda2
VG Name VolGroup00
PV Size 127.65 GB / not usable 29.84 MB
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 32768
Total PE 4084
Free PE 949
Allocated PE 3135
PV UUID sM8TEK-mrMc-IrxF-5TkV-WwIv-BNmm-l8iIRi
Step 6
[root@exdata2 ~]# lvextend -L +30G /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 66.00 GB
Logical volume LogVol00 successfully resized
Step 7
[root@exdata2 ~]# resize2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
resize2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Filesystem at /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 to 17301504 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 is now 17301504 blocks long.
[root@exdata2 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
64G 20G 42G 32% /
/dev/sda1 99M 38M 56M 41% /boot
tmpfs 2.9G 0 2.9G 0% /dev/shm
references
https://www.opentechguides.com/how-to/article/linux/172/vm-extend-root.html
https://technology.amis.nl/2017/01/30/ubuntu-vm-virtualbox-increase-size-disk-make-smaller-exports-distribution/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fteij2amMos
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/1.1.0-8/gparted-live-1.1.0-8-i686.iso/download?use_mirror=excellmedia
